Comments on: Drive-Thru: 1982 Holiday Bowl

By: John

John — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:59:19 +0000

Awesome, Chevy Chase is on the OSU Sideline at the 6:42 mark.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:18:00 +0000

azbuckeye: “anyone else as old as I am?”

possibly.

By: azbuckeye

azbuckeye — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:05:07 +0000

Not that this is on point but the best game that I ever saw in the ‘Shoe was the 1984 game with Keith Byers against the Fighting Illini — down 24 – 0 on the way to half time and the old girdirons were shaking as Keith was baking — throwing shoes and taking names! anyone else as old as I am?

By: Pasadenadavid

Pasadenadavid — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:38:09 +0000

I was at that game. I’ll never forget how short the lines were for beer and the restroom. That was a fun team . I was really disappointed that Tim Spencer didn’t have a better career in the NFL. He wasted too much time in the USFL with the Chicago Blitz. He was a big back with a tremendous burst. And Mike Tomczak? Who would have figured that between him and Art Schlichter, that Tomczak would be the one with the 15 year career in the NFL?

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:25:22 +0000

Thanks for the upload, Vico. I have very vague memories of this game, so I’m glad to see some of these archeological artifacts retrieved for the common good. The “older readers” comment is pretty funny. Assuming I make it to mid-March, my number is 59; so “older readers” is a delicate way of putting it for some of us.

However, I do remember in general, not specific games, listening to players such as Tom Matte, Bob Ferguson, Billy Anders, Ike Kelly, etc. make plays and defending our honor. See (rocking back and spitting in the general direction of my spitoon), back then we had a contraption called the ‘radio’, which was way before that newfangled Youtube-O-Vision thingy. Kids these days.

By: El Caballo de Sangre

El Caballo de Sangre — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:54:54 +0000

“our older readers”…dagnabit, you greenhorn, I’m ONLY 40 and I remember this whuppin’ of those consarned Mormons like it was yestiddy – I wore an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time…although I must admit that I’d pretty much completely forgotten the name “Brent Offenbecher” until I read it just now. Still: “older readers”…damn, that’s a bitch. Just know that it’s coming for you, too, and a lot faster than you think it is

That WAS a kind of weird year – losing to the Seminoles was kind of a WTF moment (we lost to WHO?), and the Wisky game was like death; BUT: That win over the Wolverines was one of the sweetest I’ve ever experienced. I’ve mentioned before that I grew up in NW OH around way too many Michigan fans, and whichever side each of us were on, we always took perverse pleasure in “sending them to the Rose Bowl with a black eye” whenever it happened. It can’t be reiterated enough: this is why so many of us love the Buckeyes and the rivalry so much: I bet if you polled the ’82 Wolverines and asked them what stings worse – losing to the Bruins twice or us the one time, to a man they’d choose the latter. Well, maybe not to a MAN, but you get my drift – quirk in the schedule or not, THAT was the loss that ruined their season.

Steve Young: “probably” the best player on the field? Nope. He was undoubtedly the best, by a long shot. Dude was a truly electrifying athlete at QB, as good as anybody I’ve ever seen. If it weren’t for backing up a legend in SF for as long as he was forced to, we’d be talking about him the way people talk about Favre today. Contingency is everything. All this is not to belittle – in fact, it makes it even more awesome – how badly we beat the shit out of him that night in 1982.

Another thing that always jumps out at me whenever we take these trips in the wayback machine is the amazing list of coaches that have plied their trade in Columbus. I mean, that’s not a secret to any of us who make it our business to dip deep into Buckeye lore, but I’m always a little miffed that “national” CFB writers never seem to take a minute’s break from polishing the knobs of the Holtzes and Meyers and Pelinis, etc., of this world and acknowledge where EXACTLY it was that they learned how to do their jobs.